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Man named Thomas Cook gets free holiday

A man who shares the same name with travel agency Thomas Cook has received a free holiday to France.

However, it wasn’t Thomas Cook who provided the trip to Paris but a competitor.

Cook initially posted on Thomas Cook’s Facebook, saying: "Seeing as I share the exact same name as your huge company, and because of this I have been ridiculed for as long as I can remember, I think it’s only fair that you help compensate for this by giving me one of your lovely holidays.

Instead, competitors lowcostholidays.com emailed Cook and offered him the holiday.

They told Cook: "Here at lowcostholidays.com, we completely sympathise with your suffering and if your name was ‘lowcostholidays.com’, we would certainly have accepted your request to be sent away on a weekend in Paris.